LEADER 02901nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910974312703321 005 20240416153312.0 010 $a9780674264977 010 $a0674264975 010 $a9780674059429 010 $a0674059425 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674059429 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081135 035 $a(OCoLC)709591717 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456073 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000470112 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12189973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470112 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10412008 035 $a(PQKB)11471857 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300906 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300906 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456073 035 $a(DE-B1597)583596 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674059429 035 $a(OCoLC)1301549098 035 $a(Perlego)1146938 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081135 100 $a20100623d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHuman dignity /$fGeorge Kateb 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780674048379 311 08$a0674048377 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe idea of human dignity -- Individual status and human rights -- Human uniqueness : traits and attributes -- Human stature and human achievements. 330 $aKateb asserts that the defense of universal human rights requires two indispensable components: morality (as promoted or enforced by justice) and human dignity. For Kateb, morality and justice have sound theoretical underpinnings; human dignity, by virtue of its ?existential? quality, lacks (but merits) its own theoretical framework. This he proceeds to establish with a critique of the writings of canonical Western political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseu, Mill, Emerson, Thoreau) and contemporary thinkers like Peter Singer and Thomas Nagel. The author argues that while morality compels just governments to prevent, reduce, or eliminate human suffering inasmuch as it is possible, people possess and are entitled to dignity by mere virtue of their ?status? as human beings. Homo sapiens, he maintains, have a ?stature,? manifest in the species's ?great achievements,? that exceeds that of other creatures, even in (or especially in) the secular cosmos. 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aDignity 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 0$aDignity. 676 $a323 700 $aKateb$b George$0619676 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974312703321 996 $aHuman dignity$91078129 997 $aUNINA